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Excerpt from A Book About Authors: Reflections Recollections of a Book-Wright
I had thought of modestly styling this a Book about Bookmakers; but that word has unworthy associa tions, and the Society of Authors licenses us all to take a higher title. One remembers the Rouen judge's dictum to Dumas When he scrupled to style himself a dramatist in the city of the great Corneille - Il-y-a des degrés, M Dumas! And indeed What I have in mind in the following pages is that, Where they are not mere makers of books, great and small authors differ from one another in degree rather than in kind.
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